Weekend Contest #3: Digital Fabric

A. Roll it up to really fill the printer
B. Call it graphene and collect bazillions of grant money

No one took George de Mestral seriously at first.

update 'bracelet' approx 100mm insde diameter

When I try to upload it there are 'pins' missing!!!

I've designed a purse using a very flexible, interwoven mesh pattern. the wires are a little over 1mm with about .5mm between.
The purse also has a reclosable clasp. The rendering shows it in the closed position, but it will be printed in the open position.

model page

@vertigopolka The design of your purse looks very familiar.

quote title=JACANT wrote on Sun, 24 February 2013 22:58]
No one took George de Mestral seriously at first.

update 'bracelet' approx 100mm insde diameter

When I try to upload it there are 'pins' missing!!!
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ooo.... I wonder if a version of velcro is printable in WSF?

If the pins are made of seperate shells that are very small, Mesh Mesic removes them before booleaning - use the Net Fabb Cloud Service before uploading to Shapeways to ensure no parts get removed.

A - the structure is already at the 20 minute time-out limit for Mesh Medic, another 40 rings cases the upload to fail.
B - hasn't that been done?


Paul

@stop4stuff - Yes, I've used the same basic purse design in my "Woven Purse" as my "Mesh Purse" (attached pic), but the new purse has an interwoven "fabric" design as opposed to a flat, flexible pattern in the mesh purse below.



And, quite honestly, I've attempted (very unsuccessfully) to use this weave pattern in a purse earlier this month. This new design fixes some of the flaws I had. So maybe this design does not qualify for this contest.

VELCRO! I woke up thinking about that this morning and came on here to see if I had any time to make a design, but since Paul mentioned it I'll pass. I like your design by the way Paul cuz, as mentioned, it looks like graphene. I'm a big graphene fan, I even have a domain dedicated to it. I'd call it Graphene Digital Textile!

I'll vote for Vertigopolka's purse. I can appreciate the time that went into making those curves while still maintaining the clearances. I'm thinking you had to make a radial array for each part before duplicating it linearly.

On the other hand, I have no idea how Jacant made that half a buckyball with his design! :laughing:

On the other OTHER hand, Ryan's design will probably be the most popular as far as sales go.

I'm glad to see this weekends contest was a great success! YAYYYY!

Hey all,

wow, you sure gave us a hard time choosing We REALLY liked Vertigopolka's purse (we may be in touch about that one and stop4stuff's coaster, but after debating it with some colleagues, we think that JACANT's approach was the most innovative - the $25 voucher is coming your way, congrats!

Thank you all for making this edition such a success - I guess we'll have to come up with an even better theme next weekend!

Cheers,

Bart

Congrats JACANT

This has been a rather interesting weekend contest - what's next?

Paul

You did say "a digital fabric model that's more interesting than just a square piece of cloth?"

If the design works is a different story, but hey let's keep on pushing the boundary's

Thanks for the prize and having the competition. I love a challenge. Can't wait till the next one.

Cheers

Rob

Congrats, Rob.

I ran out of time on this one, but here is a resource I found that may be of interest: Chain Mail Tutorials.

Nice one.

Thanks Marcus

Rob

And the next step up from cgmail is http://www.mailleartisans.org/ - all kinds of weave to explore in their library

Paul

Congrats, Rob! Real nice work!

Thank you to everyone for your kind words. :blush:

I rolled up a smaller version - Hex Maille bracelet

Paul